Kerry McDonald
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How Black Education Entrepreneurs—and School Choice—Are Helping Kids
Advocates of school choice policies that enable education funding to follow students instead of going to school systems are typically…
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MSNBC Claims Homeschooling Is Driven By “Insidious Racism,” But the Facts Show Otherwise
On Friday, MSNBC shared a tweet claiming that homeschooling is being driven by “the insidious racism of the American religious…
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Could Employer-Based Microschooling Be The Newest Workplace Perk?
When Elon Musk created a small school for his children and some of his SpaceX employees on the company’s California…
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Universal Preschool Programs Expand, Despite Documented Harms
The Biden Administration’s proposed universal preschool plan may be stalled, but states and cities are pushing ahead with taxpayer-funded preschool…
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From Pandemic Playgroups to a Thriving Microschool: How One “Edupreneur” Met Rising Parent Demand for Schooling Alternatives
Ada Salie heard a lot of complaints. Parents were upset about what was happening in their children’s schools last fall,…
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Boston College Psychology Professor: “School Has Become a Toxic Place for Children”
More families may be flocking to homeschooling and other schooling alternatives over the past two years, but Peter Gray has…
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Associated Press: Homeschooling Rate Remains High, Despite School Reopenings
I spoke this week with a mother who pulled her children out of school in 2020 to give homeschooling a…
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From Homeschooler to MIT Professor
Matthew Shoulders grew up in the Appalachian Mountains on a small Virginia farm where he and his five siblings were…
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How Hybrid Schools Are Reshaping Education
They’re not exactly schools, but they’re not homeschools either. They have elements of structured curriculum and institutional learning, while offering…
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‘Undoctrinate’ Your Kids: Pushing Back Against Classroom and Campus Propaganda
Tolerance of different viewpoints and values is a key principle of a free society, and yet in classrooms and on…
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New Data Show the Exodus From Public Schools Is Continuing
This article is excerpted from LiberatED, a weekly email newsletter where FEE Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald brings you news…
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Why so Many Families Are Uprooting and Fleeing to Freer States
Emily Burns had every intention of staying in Massachusetts. A longtime Boston resident, she and her husband left the city…
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Vanderbilt University Study Shows Why Biden’s Universal Government Preschool Program Would Be a Disaster
President Biden’s proposed $2 trillion-plus Build Back Better Act failed to gain US Senate approval in 2021, but efforts remain…
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New BBC Analysis Reveals the Tragic Impact COVID Policies Had on Youth Mental Health
During the 2020 lockdowns and prolonged school closures, it was (or at least should have been) no surprise that mental…
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Teacher and Mom of Four Launches Mask-Free Learning Center in Response to Parent Demand
The coronavirus response over the past two years has transformed education, putting parents back in the driver’s seat and inspiring…
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